And here I was feeling good for buying the safe recently! :(For those of us unlucky enough to already have one, could you check if it is possible to change the core? If you can change the core out it could make quite a difference, but I have no clue what to look for there.

Man fucking pisses me off when dumbass Americans like you review the usefulness of products. "Any thief can easily break in with this readily available product they won't be carrying!" The people who attract theives of any sophistication are not the same ones who buy the cheapest safe possible on amazon.The outcome of you dropping hate on basic safes like this is you're going to deter people from buying safes. Know what they're going to buy instead? Guns. Because someone can't steal your playstation if they're bleeding out on the carpet. Think I'm being dramatic? I am. Murdering someone for a couple grand worth of consumer grade garbage is incredibly dramatic, Yet it happens all the time in America, thanks to the ideas of impractical, grandstanding, unproductive, know it all sacks of human waste like yourself.

I have this safe to keep a 5 year old and a 3 year old away from two handguns. I don't even have it bolted so I don't care if someone steals it or the contents inside of it since I have insurance and cameras all over the apartment. I gave each boy 5 chances to open the safe and they weren't able to, so it works for what I need it for.

To make it a better decoy, remove the tubular lock and weld a steel ball in there. Also replace the battery with a lead based, very long lasting one 😎. Also fill the rest of the safe with fake money, as realistic as you can print them.

I'm learning more and more than almost no lock is truly safe and that the better the lock the higher the degree of difficulty to pick it, sorta. A slightly more expensive lock won't keep everyone out but it'll keep the amateurs at bay.

I think I know some other tricks to open this "safe".1. If there is a little hole in the back you just have to put a small wire in it and press the reset button on the door.2. Bounce the safe multiple times on a mattress or something like that and rotate the handle at same time.3. Just smash in the top of the safe with your fist or hand as hard as you can and rotate the handle.

Convenience is often preferred than security by non-serious people. I think it would be better if they removed the physical backup key mechanism and just have a small slit for an emergency 3V coin battery in case the primary one inside the safe runs out.

I feel like it could make a good safe for an escape room or something like that where you aren’t really worried about security against a lockpicking attacker, since it’s so damn cheap but looks decently robust.

Or if you wanted to be really devious, don’t reveal the code (or reveal a red herring code) and have the real challenge being to find the impressioning tool and figure out the “secret” of the mechanical cylinder to get it open.

What is that tool called you opened it with and perhaps a link? I ask because I have a small one similar to this that my kid kept his "treasures" in bit the problem is he lost the key and they clearly say they do not replace keys. So, I need to open it to get his "treasures" out!